Definition of Pinnulas

1. pinnula [n] - See also: pinnula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnulas

pinning
pinnings
pinniped
pinniped mammal
pinnipedes
pinnipedia
pinnipeds
pinnock
pinnocks
pinnoed
pinnothere
pinnotheres
pinnula
pinnulae
pinnular
pinnulas (current term)
pinnulate
pinnulated
pinnule
pinnules
pinny
pinnywinkles
pinochle
pinochles
pinocle
pinocles
pinocyte
pinocytic
pinocytose
pinocytosed

Literary usage of Pinnulas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Figures and Descriptions of Canadian Organic Remains by Geological Survey of Canada, John William Salter, James Hall, Elkanah Billings, Thomas Rupert Jones, John Vaughan Thompson (1858)
"... that in the former they are beset with small plates upon their ambulacral surfaces, which he calls tentacles, remarking that pinnulas are absent. ..."

2. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1902)
"... a cup-shaped body bearing arms, usually branching, with pinnulas and a stalk, usually with cirri. They are either temporarily or permanently attached. ..."

3. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"... absence of Polian vesicles and the position of the gonads in the pinnulas with genital rhachis running through the whole length of the arm branches. ..."

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